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ply drawn through the water and occasionally hauled in, turned 
inside out, and rinsed in a bucket of sea-water. The rinsings con- 
tain myriads of minute organisms, which, poured into the scrim 
enclosures, are eagerly devoured by the young lobsters. 
By the methods above described, and after many failures, acci- 
dents, and reverses, we succeeded in raising several hundred lob- 
sters up to the fourth moult, at which time, as previously men- 
tioned, they take on many of the habits of the adult, and have, for 
their general resemblance to the adult, been called lobsterlings. 
Although artificial lobster-culture has been attempted in other 
countries, we think the efforts of last summer were far more suc- 
cessful than any heretofore reported, and we are encouraged that 
at no far-distant date we shall be able to report on a successful 
and practical method of lobster-culture. 
The interest attached to the Woods Hole experiments induced 
your Commissioners to report the results of their work at the meet- 
ing of the American Fisheries Association in June, and some idea 
of the endurance of the lobsterlings when properly nourished may 
be gained from the fact that during the extremely hot weather : 
number of these were carried from Woods Hole to Niagara Falls, 
where they remained without change of water during the meeting, 
and were then taken back to Woods Hole and again liberated, 
only a very few individuals perishing on the journey. 
12. DISTRIBUTION OF LopstTer-F Ry. 
Your Commission has received upwards of a million lobster fry 
from the Government hatchery at Woods Hole, and has distrib- 
uted these in the waters of Narragansett Bay. 
13. THe PREPARATION OF A List oF THE FisHes Known To IN- 
HABIT THE Bay. 
Your Commission is often in receipt of strange fishes taken in 
traps, washed ashore, or captured by hook and line. These have 
been preserved, and now form the nucleus of a collection. <A list 
